Transformation Initiatives in the Accreditation of Educator Preparation: Vision, Status, and Works in Progress

Session Type: Invited Session

Abstract

With increasing criticism about the weakness of the research base for teacher preparation, the Transformation Initiative (TI) is a Research and Development (R&D) approach to accreditation. Educator Preparation Providers (EPPs) or systems (states, school-IHE collaboratives, etc.) adopting the TI pathway engage in a rigorous research investigation of a chosen aspect of educator preparation to inform the profession and/or offer research-proven models for replication of promising practices. The Transformation Initiative provides an EPP with the opportunity to focus on the improvement of the profession using research on its own successful practices. Presenters discuss the vision and status of R&D efforts in accreditation and two teacher preparation institutions engaged in Transformation Initiatives present their works-in-progress.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education

Chair

• James G. Cibulka, Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation

Presenters

• Mark W. LaCelle-Peterson, Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation

• Deborah B. Eldridge, National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education

• Colleen A. Hardy, Evangel University

• Diana B. Lys, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• Linda Ann Patriarca, East Carolina University

Discussant

• Etta R. Hollins, University of Missouri - Kansas City